Improvement in sad-irons



.'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HEINRY R. BOBBINS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-mons.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,050, dated September 2l, 1875; application filed August 16, 1875.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY R. RoBBINs, of Baltimore city, State ofMaryland, have invented anew and Improved Sad-Iron and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specitication, in Which- Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section; Fig. 2, a detail view in elevation Fig. 3, a plan view, part being broken away.

The invention relates to novel means Whereby the handle of a sad -iron may be quickly locked or unlocked, engaged with or'det-ached from, the body, all as hereinafter described with drawing, and subsequently pointed out in claims.

A represents the handle, having a bottom plate, beneath which is formed the pendent Wedge a, and the opposite cavities a a', thereabove. B is a loose bifurcated lever, that turns upon a rib, c, of the body O, and Works in a cavity. c', thereof. Over and on the prongs b b rest the arms d of loose, yupwardly-pointed wedges D. E are loose rollers, working` in the oblique slots e e ofthe bearing-plates E E. Y By pressing down upon the handle b of 1everB the WedgesD are thrown up, so as to drive the rollers E .E apart, up the oblique slots e e, and allow the handle-Wedge a to be removed or inserted. The lever being 110W allowed to fall by the weight of its prong ends,tl1e rollers come down into the cavities a a', and prevent its egress.

The handle may thus be applied quickly Whenever the operator is ready to use the iron,

and may be removed with equal facility at other` ner. specified.

' HENRY R. ROBBINS. Witnesses:

GEO. S. HEMMICK, GAssAWAY WATKINs. 

